Tens of millions of voters will be heading for the polls in the United States of America tomorrow to elect the country’s 45th President, who will take over from President Barrack Obama in January. America’s presidential elections hold on the second Tuesday of November every four years. While much is at stake in US elections […]
Hillary Clinton is our choice
Tens of millions of voters will be heading for the polls in the United States of America tomorrow to elect the country’s 45th President, who will take over from President Barrack Obama in January. America’s presidential elections hold on the second Tuesday of November every four years. While much is at stake in US elections and they are always a titanic struggle between very powerful opposing forces, this year’s US presidential election campaign has been the wildest, nastiest and cruellest, full of drama, suspense, twists, turns and controversies.
Like any other US presidential polls in recent times the contest is featuring a strong field of contestants representing the big political parties and smaller also-rans, as well as the ubiquitous independent candidates. Ultimately however the race is a straight fight between the Democratic Party represented by Hillary Rodham Clinton and the Republican Party whose candidate is Donald Trump.
From the course and tone of the campaigns, it would seem that the differences in the personal circumstances of the candidates – more than even the ideological inclinations of their various parties, remain the central determinant of the outcome of the polls. For instance, Clinton of the Democratic Party parades an intimidating array of credentials featuring a long career history of involvement in social causes in favour of promoting the welfare of relatively disadvantaged groups in America. She is also a former First Lady of the US as the wife of former President Bill Clinton, a Senator representing New York City and former Secretary of State during the first term of President Barak Obama. Incidentally she also vied for the US Presidency with Obama in 2008 before accepting to serve in his cabinet as Secretary of State.
On the other hand, the Republican candidate is Donald Trump, a billionaire business man with global ranking in real estate development as well as commendable credentials as a reality television personality. However, his personal deficit in public service credentials was not helped by his often incendiary pronouncements during the campaign, which betrayed an inclination towards base American irredentism, and thereby put sections of the voting American public as well as billions of people around the world concerned over his competence to steer the US and the rest of the world into deeper trouble if he becomes president. This concern is driven by the strategic geo-political position of the President of the US who at any point in time wields so much clout that renders the incumbent the most powerful person in the world. Hence the world devotes more than casual attention to who becomes the president of that country.
Nigerians too have paid much attention to unfolding events in the United States especially since Donald Trump emerged as the Republican candidate. A man like him could not possibly be fielded by a Nigerian political party in a serious election. A man in command of such foul language, with no respect for women, ethnic and religious minorities, the disabled or even dead military heroes, a man who does not respect even the Pope, cannot get very far in this land. Therefore, like most of the rest of the world most Nigerians eagerly anticipate a victory for Mrs Clinton in tomorrow’s US election. She is a very calm, measured and responsible woman with a very good track record in the service of her country and a healthy respect for minorities and the downtrodden in her country and across the world.
Her victory in tomorrow’s election, which has been predicted by most national and state by state opinion polls in her country, will enable most of the world to heave a big sigh of relief that an essential madman like Donald Trump did not make it to the White House and did not place his unsteady and women-groping hands on the nuclear button.
